May 2026

Alexa Hatanaka line the tree-filled pathway of the Giardini during the Venice Biennale, hanging above visitors walking between pavilions.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’The Venice Biennale runs through November 22, 2026. <span class=”media-credit”>Photo Andrea Avezzú | Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia</span>’> There is very little human figuration in the 2026 Venice Biennale, which signals a significant shift

Last week, the New York City Ballet celebrated its annual gala with full-wattage star power. There’s nothing quite like seeing 83-year-old Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, walk the red carpet with his wife, ballerina Melanie Hamrick (who happened to be the Event Chair of the gala). Jagger, the event’s honorary chair, took off his sunglasses

The case for playing public golf near New York City has rarely been stronger, and the timing is no accident. The 2025 Ryder Cup turned Farmingdale’s Bethpage Black into international shorthand for public golf in New York, sending a generation of weekend players hunting for the next great round they can finally book without a

A few years after the launch of consumer A.I., companies are racing to build governance structures, appointing chief A.I. officers, drafting policies and formalizing oversight processes. The goal is to ensure that A.I. adoption delivers measurable value while minimizing operational, legal and reputational risks. But in the scramble to establish new frameworks, organizations are overlooking

Although still the preferred mode for art display, with its neutrality, distance and clinical clarity, the white cube increasingly feels out of step with work rooted in memory, identity and everyday social reality. Exhibitions are moving out of controlled interiors and into spaces that feel lived-in, unstable, even charged, marking a turn toward immersive, site-responsive

Noah Scalin, a multimedia artist living in Richmond, Virginia, had never heard of the South Carolina town of Lake City before looking online for arts festivals where he could show and sell his work. What caught his eye about ArtFields, at the time an eight-day town-wide visual arts festival in Lake City, was the best-in-show

Down a dramatic palm tree-lined driveway dotted with immaculate flower beds, paved red bricks lead to a hacienda lobby where La Quinta Resort opens up like a portal to 1926. Just past the main entrance of the hotel’s restaurant, Morgan’s in the Desert, a small private room is labeled “Grgich” in the resort’s signature Spanish